White & Case law firm news

Clifford Chance, White & Case, Norton Rose, Mochtar Karuwin Komar, Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners, Wiriadinata & Saleh and Baker & McKenzie have advised on a US$1.2bn multi-sourced Shari’a compliant Islamic financing deal – the largest cross-border private sector Islamic financing into Indonesia to date.

Herbert Smith, Ashurst, White & Case and Trowers & Hamlins have all played a role in advising on the world’s largest power project financing thus far this year – Abu Dhabi’s US$1.5bn Shuweihat 3 independent power plant (IPP) project. According the Herbert Smith’s lead partner on the deal, Andrew Newberry, the project is a landmark partnership between Japanese and Korean investors in a Middle East energy financing project.

Morrison & Foerster has lured leading international tax lawyer Eric Roose and his team of three from White & Case to join its Tokyo office.

London-based Hogan Lovells senior partner Andrew Carey will relocate to Singapore in April 2011 as part of the firm’s expansionist push to further develop its capital markets capabilities in the region.

继重量级合伙人吕立山离开锦天城加盟中伦后，另一高级合伙人易芳也带领其6人团队离开锦天城，并加盟君合上海办公室。易芳将担任上海君合基础设施和银行金融部门合伙人。

Indonesia has been on the Australian legal industry’s radar for more than 20 years, but recent events have made it even more prominent.

Jeffrey Sun Jie, formerly Shanghai-based counsel with Latham & Watkins, has joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Orrick) as a partner in the China corporate group.

前瑞生顾问孙捷律师(Jeffrey)加盟奥睿，担任其中国业务部合伙人。孙捷将常驻奥睿上海办事处。

Zhong Lun has secured the services of high-profile lawyer Yongjun Peter Ni to develop its tax practice. Ni, who joins Zhong Lun as head of the firm’s tax group, comes from White & Case where was most recently head of the US firm’s greater China tax practice.

中伦日前聘得著名律师倪勇军为其税法业务主管合伙人，协助其提升税法业务的国际化服务水准。倪勇军之前担任原美国伟凯大中华区税法业务主管。

Vietnamese firm YKVN has hired K. Minh Dang as a partner and head of its newly-opened Singapore office. Dang, who joins the firm from the Singapore office of DLA Piper where he was the partner-in-charge of the firm’s Southeast Asia corporate practice, will also be charged with the task of expanding YKVN’s cross-border ASEAN practice.

White & Case has appointed Ken Hawkes as a partner in its Singapore office. Hawkes, who will join the firm’s global project finance practice, joins from Hogan Lovells where he was head of the firm’s banking and finance practice in Singapore.

With the increasing trade between China and Latin America, Shenzhen-based Guanghe has become the first PRC firm to establish an office in Latin America. The firm has recently set up a branch in Uruguay, which is operated under the name Guanghe Sud-America.

随着中国与南美贸易的增长，深圳广和近日在南美乌拉圭成立分所--广和（南美）律师事务所，这也是目前南美的第一家中国律所。

Hadiputrano, Hadinoto & Partners, Soemadipradja & Taher, Holman Fenwick Willan and Freshfields have advised on a landmark cash and share swap tri-merger involving three public-listed companies. The deal has created one of the biggest global players in coal and has led to the first-ever listing of an Indonesian coal miner on the LSE main board.

US firm Mayer Brown JSM is set to drastically scale down its Thai operations after the departure of three key partners from its Bangkok office.

UK-based firm Wragge & Co has opened its fifth international office – and its first in the Middle East – in Abu Dhabi last week in the form of a joint venture firm named Wragge & Co Legal Consultants.

Amidst the turmoil of 31 international firms being sued for practising illegally in India, Clifford Chance joined the growing ranks of firms making India-relevant hires in Singapore as it appointed Geraint Hughes, 43, as head of its India practice.

French firm Gide Loyrette Nouel has poached an in-house lawyer as well as a senior lawyer from a rival firm to bolster its Vietnam practice.

The Singapore office of Holman Fenwick & Willan has been dealt a blow as its head of corporate finance leaves the firm and takes with him five other lawyers – including one partner –across to the Singapore office of English firm Berwin Leighton Paisner.